a gruesome discovery. a decome posed skull found behind ali's bargain outlet in pasadena. the man who made the discovery called limits the search turned up other body parts. police aren't saying whether this is a murder case or not. staying in anne arundel county, people are left wondering why a woman abandoned her infant at a glen burnie church. the baby was fund by a pastor in training. the mother is charged with neglect of a minor and desertion of a minor. and there are new cameras. five new speed cameras will be up and working.

they are cromwell bridge near loch raven high school, southwest academy, patapsco and owings mills elementary school. for months you will only get a warning but tissues will be handed out after that. you've been outside. this should come as no surprise. 2012 is going down as the hottest year on record in the northeast. the average temperature, january through july was just under 50 degrees. new highs were set in several states including right here in maryland. we're seeing the fifth dryest since 1895. oh, yes. 2012 has been a wild one in more ways than one. drier than normal, hotter than normal. back-to-back overcast days across the state but no rain. this would be welcome rain in

many, many spots, especially on the eastern shore. the showers are fairly limited. you can see no official rainfall. 87, but the old record 105. thank goodness we haven't been threatening that one. the chances for rain look good. we'll talk about when we may see decent rain. this weather is having an impact thanks to the winter. a large part of maryland is now under a drought warning. abc2's don harrison is talking about how it's affect farmers. >> reporter: eastern shore farmer dale sums it up. they are under a drought warning. much of central maryland counties are under a drought watch. that affects frederick, carroll, baltimore, harford, howard and montgomery counties. it hasn't been a great year for farmers. >> most of my dry land corn is

about a third of a crop, if that much. hay is about half. >> reporter: dale doesn't need to travel it one of maryland's casinos for excitement. when you see corn this high during a drought, well that could be deceiving. >> that's irrigated over there. >> reporter: with thatter ri gages comes does push all -- that irrigation comes water. when corn and grain prices go up, it can affect a lot of things. >> a ripple effect. prices are high. that affects the chicken strip and the beef and the hogs. that ripples back to the consumers in the stores, meat price. >> reporter: on the eastern shore, don harrison, abc2 news. >> to put this in perspective

for you, so far this year maryland is more than eight inches behind the rain for last year. the drought isn't just affecting the meern shore. the lack of wart has been driving up food prices all across the country. large portions of corn and soy bean crops remain in poor conditions. because of those crops to feed so many animals, egg and poultry prices are expected to rise followed by milk, pork and beef. a guilty plea from the suspect in the arizona shooting that killed six people and left congresswoman gabrielle giffords wounded. karen travers has the latest. >> reporter: today in a tucson courtroom, the community got a measure of closure. jared loughner entered a guilty plea for the january 11th shooting spree. six people were killed and 13 injured, including former

congresswoman gabrielle giffords. a federal judge ruled that loughner was competent to stand trial allowing him to enter the guilty plea calling the pain and loss incal cuable. cuable. another victim agreed. >> i came within a couple inches of losing my life at the safeway, and that kind of experience stays with you. >> reporter: today loughner's attorneys had to persuade the federal judge to allow loughner to enter a guilty plea. a doctor said he showed signs of depression. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and he had been forcibly medicating him for more than a year. loughner said he was remorseful for his actions, especially what he did to 9-year-old christina

greene. loughner will serve a life prison in sentence. karen travers, abc2 news washington. a former university of maryland student charged with making threats on campus submitted a guilty plea on charges of disturbing the peace and pg county county prosecutors said he will continue receiving mental health treatment and must perform community service. he has withdrawn from his classes and is banned from campus. coming up, a california woman snatches a baby. how she smulged the baby -- smuggled the baby out of the hospital. hey, you want to track the showers? it's easy to do with our mobile

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a lot more olympic action today. if you don't want spoilers, turn the volume down. for those who do want to know, tom rivers is in london. >> reporter: ally raisman got a chance to one up. he is flip lad gold -- flipped a

cold. teammate gabby douglas and jordin wieber both came up empty handed. usain bolt coasted through the 200 meters. yesterday, the women of team usa bested their canadian counter parts to head for the finals. that was not the case on the basketball course. in the quarter finals, the u.s. faced off with its neighbor to the north. this time it wasn't close. the american women crushed the canadian counter parts. finally, the london games could be serving gold to misty may traenor and walsh jennings.

tom rivers, abc2 news london. >> all right. not a whole lot of precipitation but some showers south of salisbury fezling out -- fizzling out. here some showers out there at mouth of the potomac but statewide not much rain. what we have had, the overcast, turning gray skies. the weekend we had plenty of sunshine, just can't seem to find any to kick off this week. tomorrow we'll see some breaks in the sun. we have a stalled out front. as long last it's around we'll have not only the threat for hit and miss showers, but also we're going to continue to see, i think, generally cloudy skies ventura of the day. right now at bwi mostly cloudy, 86. winds are from the east at six

miles an hour. temperatures mid to low 80s. 85 in hagerstown. winds are from the east at 5. the humidity is high, no question about that. we have rather high humidity in just about all of maryland for the moment. all right. here are the showers to our south and across the center part of the state. quite a bit of active weather just south, just south of this stalled front. i have to say it's not that typical in early august to see a stationary front, a warm front pushing through, but this case, this front is shifting by 50, 80 miles at times. this is generating much more rain, so at least we're in the dealing with that, but in spots in maryland, particularly the eastern shore we could use additional rain. the trend show as hit or miss shower possible tomorrow but a better chance for hit or miss

showers as we go into the afternoon on thursday. by the way, i have to bring you up to speed. our new hurricane ernesto making its move on mexico as a category one storm. we think ernesto will make rainfall twice, north of belize, a second one as a category one storm. overnight 70, partly cloudy. your two-degree guarantee is 90 with a few late day storms down 72. all right, the seven-day forecast shows upper 80s to near 90. i think that round of storms coming through on friday may drop the temps, so a little bit cooler into saturday and sunday, kelly. >> all right. cooler than what we've seen. >> mid-80s versus 90. it's a minor difference but we'll take it. all right. let's talk politics.

today in the campaign speech mitt romney used the issue of welfare to try to go after the president. tory dunnan joins us from washington. this isn't something we've heard a lot about. what's behind all this? >> reporter: mitt romney is using this issue to go after the middle class vote. today he decided to unveil the new attack in the president's home state. >> america will have a choice. >> reporter: mitt romney's focus was a policy that would change the welfare to work programs. it would no longer require americans to receive work training if they get government assistance. he said it's unfair to middle class americans. >> the president has tried to reverse that accomplishment by taking the work requirement out of welfare. that is wrong. if i'm president i'll put work back in welfare. >> reporter: a corresponding new ad referenced the democratic president who originally signed

welfare to work. >> in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress required work for welfare. but on july 12th, president obama quietly announced to gut it. >> reporter: white house press secretary jay carney took issue with that. >> let me say this advertisement is category economy false and blatantly dishonest. >> reporter: he goes on to say this gives states more flexibility with regards to how they want to get those families back to work. >> meanwhile the president is in washington holding two private fund-raisers. apparently some comments are getting a lot of attention. >> reporter: this is during a fund-raising speech in connecticut when the president coined this new term. >> he would ask the middle class to pay more in taxes so he clan

give another $2350 -- $250,000 tam break to people making -- it's romneyhood. >> reporter: obama campaign hasn't said whether romney hood will become affection churr. mitt romney responded to what he thinks about that lay belt he says it's obama loney if you can say that three times over. >> thanks for that live report. we'll see you tomorrow. >> the democratic national convention is four weeks away. organizes want to make sure you're taking part whether there in charlotte or not. the dnc the mobile app will provide more ways for people to participate either in person or virtually. this includes live streams of convention speeches and suggestions on where you can eat

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up and so can the calories. >> reporter: the cost of ordering food online has made dinner easy but has made it costly and less healthy. a recent study from the university of rochester evaluated 160,000 online orders. under the cloak came orders with higher costs and higher calories. the same online tools to load toppings on a pizza can be easily used to customize a meal. sites like grub hub have added more options. >> we've had a lot of people ask for these low fat, low carb, vegetarian, gluause they want more healthy options. >> reporter: ordering online means requests to substitute healthier sides will get lost in the shuffle. for big portion, put half to the

side as soon as it arrives. >> one of the things that's nice about delivery food it comes in its own containers. >> reporter: that cuts calories and turns one meal into two or possibly three, adding more bang and less bulk for the buck. for consumer watch, i'm karin caifa. >> sounds like a good idea. if you want to use that new forks samsung might want you to consider them. the company is trying to tempt offers to take your old phone in, no matter what kind it is and they will pay you up to $300. if you trade in a samsung exiler ate, you'll get $100. coming up, it's that time of the year when or kids head back to school. we're going to tell you when researchers say you should buy

supplies. as a father of two little boys, it broke my heart to see this little boy sitting there by himself. >> a mother leaves her 2-year-old son in a car seat. >> a scum found in pasadena -- skull found in poole poole. and poole -- prescott pasadena. we have a trouter that overturned on pasadena. no one was hurt but ritchie

highway is still shut down both directions east and west. they're asking everyone in the hear to avoid the pear if they can. we'll keep an eye on it throughout the rest of the 30 minutes. had to be something, just had to be. hard for us to understand why the mother of a baby by would walk away. police got a call to come out to grapes point in seven. there he was, all of two months old, all alone. the mother has been found. >> first, the baby boy is expected to be okay. he had been outside for three hours or so in a shaded entrance way in temperatures in the high 80s and high humidity. it is a miracle the child was found at all. on any other monday the grace point church would have been closed. the church secretary would not have been there. this was not any other